168. Also didn't cheat. I got Kingstown by luck because it was a type-in for Kingston. And yes, YOLO, except not according to a video that said a boy once said "in my past life I was murdered by an ax". The boy brought his family to a village and said "this is where it happened". It turned out there had recently been a murder there with an ax, and the village officials had not found the culprit. The boy gave a description of the man, and he was found. The man confessed to committing the murder. So maybe you don't always live once.

I first attempted this quiz on 29th November 2015 and now, today on 8 June 2017, I have finally completed this quiz!! I finally know all the capitals, of all the countries. It feels so good to say that!!!!

Distinct lack of Ramallah. Of all your 'Worlds' quizzes and all the disputed territories you include as sovereign nations, it really sticks out that you choose not to put in Palestine. *Other* quiz sites do...just saying.....

This creator is probably from the United States and the United States does not recognize Jerusalem as Palestine's capital. The US recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Palestine claims East Jerusalem as the capital while Israel does not recognize Palestine therefore recognizing all of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

There are not 196 "nations". What this quiz deals with is sovereign states. The "United Nations" is also a misnomer. The Kurds are a nation, so are the Inuit, Tatars, Tibetans, as well as German, Irish, Greek and Japanese. Conversely Vatican City citizens do not constitute a nation. Somewhat grey area, but contemporary usage is way off.

There are 193 UN members and 206 effectively sovereign states plus one sovereign entity. This quiz takes the UN members and adds the Vatican (a UN observer), Taiwan (an ex-UN member) and Kosovo (recognised by over half the UN membership). The remaining 10 are more controversial, either lacking recognition (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Nagorno-Karabakh, Transnistria, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, South Ossetia, Somaliland and Ashkelia) or not being fully sovereign despite having some UN recognition (Cook Islands, Palestinian Territories, Niue). The entity is the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta - which is a UN observer!!!

If you were making this comment in the 1800s when the concept of nationalism was a new thing you would be correct. Today, however, nation-states have become so common that the terms "nation," "state," and "country" are all used as synonyms.

Can I respectfully request that the time be extended by a minute or two. This should be a test of knowledge not typing speed. As a two finger typist I just can't complete them all in time. For the periodic table of elements (118 elements) you get 12 minutes, which I can do with a minute to spare. Here there are 196 answers required in 12 minutes also (3.6 seconds per answer). I think 5 seconds per answer would be more reasonable.

Keep practicing. You get quicker bit by bit. I used to run out of time but I've just done it with 2 mins to spare. I'm also now a much better typist! Try bunching things together. For example, there are 6 "Ports" so just rattle these off. And just typing "Ouagad" and "Kotte" and "Bandar" etc works.

Finally did it fairly fast. Broke my record and did in 7:28 Seconds, with 4:32 left. I can see if you typed perfectly and remembered all the locations where you could break 7 minutes. I lost seconds on misspellings and had to see which city I missed which took a good 8 seconds to find I forgot to fill in Ankara Turkey. This is a great quiz for extending those brain cells and hand eye coordination! Not bad for a 62 year old.

Doing great when you are young (unless like under the age of 8) is no feat. A lot of things you have freshly learned when you are a teenager, while for others it might be 30 years since they were taught certain things. Plus when you are young you retain things much faster. Plus your mind is still relatively empty. And still works smoothly haha. (though indeed on the flipside; is probably occupied with other things... and might fill their heads with more useless stuff like poplyrics..)

Can whoever created this quiz also accept Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel? I know its capital is disputed, but since Tel Aviv is recognized as its capital by most countries, it should at least be one of the options.

I did this without looking at the list of countries, just visualizing the map from "Countries of the world" and go around my usual route. When i got to the end, I saw that I had skipped one country, Mexico, which is number three on my normal route.

I'm really annoyed by the quiz omitting the last letters of some names. I type Riyadh and it gots accepted after Riyad, and then I end up gluing this h at the beginning if the next capital. Same goes for Vientian(e), Phnom Pen(h), Sana('a) and a few others... :/

Think you know the countries like the back of your hand? Try seeing if you can list them in reverse alphabetical order with my new quiz, Countries of the World Z-A: https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/284204/countries-of-the-world-z-a

Does anyone else have the problem that all of the ones you miss sound familiar, but you just couldn't think of them during the actual quiz? Also, the time limit on this is a little sketchy considering that I was barely started on Africa before the quiz ended

Aden is the current official capital of Yemen. Both Sanaa and Aden are currently capitals of Yemen, but considering Sanaa is currently not in control of the Yemeni government Aden is both the de facto and the de jure capital.

So it would seem. Bandar I sort of understand as it really is Bandar Seri Bagawan, but Kotte is universal.
Also, Riyad is accepted without the H (Riyadh) and so Vientian without the E (Vientiane). I think this was a bad update.

I got all except Brunei and Sri Lanka. It’s a bit much to ask for the full names when Bandar and Kotte are used in common speech. And if these have to be exact then why leave Kingston and Kingstown interchangeable?

Memorized all of these during my senior year of high school. Came back and did this after not having practiced all summer and got 147. Still happy that I retained most of the knowledge. I definitely find this harder than the countries of the world quiz.

CHISINAU no longer works - what has happened? When the answers come up, it is 'Chișinău', so it is now necessary to type in the special 's' and 'a' characters (I don't have those on my keyboard)? Out of curiosity, I tried the Europe Capitals Quiz and the same problem happened but, I left this quiz open on a separate tab and, when Chisinau wouldn't work, I copied and pasted the answer from this quiz onto the Europe quiz and it worked... For those who may be worried, I wasn't cheating as I've completed both quizzes multiple times and only doing some investigative work...

The United States and Israel are the only two nations on earth that claim Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, with Russia claiming West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. By all rights, the answer should be Tel Aviv.

Then why aren't the capitals of Palestine, Somaliland, South Ossetia, Western Sahara, Abkhazia and Northern Cyprus in the quiz?
They also claim to have a capital city despite what other countries say, and have just as many other countries agreeing with them as Israel does for Jerusalem.

It's not enough time for me. I don't know all the answers yet, but even if I did I'm not sure I could get them all in the allotted time. Spelling is much more of an issue for me on this one than on the countries of the world quiz.

but if you knew all the answers (including how to spell them), it would be plenty of time. You just admitted that you don't know all the answers. This is a bigger problem than the time limit. If you spend several minutes thinking about one waiting for the answer to come to you you'll run out of time.

I kept scratching my head as to why Bujumbura wasn't being accepted, thought I must have been spelling it wrong. I never knew Burundi was changing its capital. Has this been in the works for a while or was it just a sudden decision?

There are two capitals in Sri Lanka - Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the administrative and legislative capital, and Colombo, the commercial, executive and judicial capital. Could Colombo also be accepted? (Just as Bolivia and South Africa have multiple capitals)

Yes! Got them all with 4:45 remaining at 1:42:46 PM on March 16, 2019. It took more than three months of practice for me to get them all. Oceania, the Caribbean, parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and even the Balkans for a time gave me trouble. But not anymore. I tried to guess them all in order, which proved not possible for Oceania and Africa; however, I still got most of them in order, and guessed Zimbabwe's capital last as I intended. I almost forgot Mali's capital but remembered it after about twenty seconds of thought. This is a great quiz! There should be a badge for not just getting all the countries of the world, but all the capitals and flags as well.

promastermage is correct, this happened following the resignation of their longtime (29 years) president yesterday (whom I had never heard of until I saw this on Wikipedia's current events portal), which prompted Kazakhstan's government to rename their capital in his honor.
That's quite a few name changes in the past few months, isn't it? First Swaziland and Macedonia change their names a little, then Burundi relocates its capital, then this happens.

Since it has already spread that Kazakhstan is renaming their capital to Nursultan this comment is rather pointless.
However, I'd like to suggest something for the interesting facts category. The former name the city had since 1998, Astana, literally means "capital city" in Kazakh.

You've changed Macedonia to North Macedonia. You've changed the capital of Burundi to Gitega. You've even (incorrectly) changed Swaziland to Eswatini (it's actually eSwatini). But for some reason you haven't changed the name of the capital of Kazakhstan from Astana to Nur-Sultan. While I am a bit offended by the change (as I might also be if our capital became Trumpington, D.C.), I think that in this case we have to concede the facts on the ground.

I stumbled across Nur-Sultan in today's newspaper, and immediately the question crossed my mind: Has the capital been renamed in all the relevant Jetpunk quizzes? So I looked, and sure enough, no! I think this is one of Jetpunk's "keynote" quizzes and should be corrected soon. I'm even fairly sure he/she is also right about the eSwatini thing, although Wikipedia hasn't changed it to that at this point. It doesn't affect the typed-in answer on the Countries quiz since input case is irrelevant, but still.

Guys I am aware of Nur-Sultan. @Jerry928 I even sent you a personal e-mail with my reasoning. We'll make the change eventually, but we're not in a rush to bend over backwards because of some third world despot.

Third-world despots are responsible for many changes in country names and their capitals. Almost every capital change -- Gitega, Dodoma, Naypyidaw, Astana/Nur-Sultan itself -- is nothing more than a power move by a despot trying to create a personal base away from the former power center. Unless you have reason to believe the change is brief -- Paraguay's Ciudad Pte. Stroessner and Russia's Stalingrad and Leningrad reverted to their original names years later -- there's no way to ignore it (unless you also stop accepting the country names Myanmar and Burkina Faso on the same grounds). Compromise: Accept both names, but display the currently correct name.

Does anyone know why the Quizmaster considers The Vatican/Holy See, Taiwan, and Kosovo countries though they are not fully recognized by the UN, but doesn't consider Somaliland, Palestine, Abakizia, South Ossetia, North Cyprus, Western Sahara, and many more as countries? They have the same level of representation at the UN as Kosovo. If he considers those countries he needs to consider many more as countries. Also, Palestine has more representation in the UN than Kosovo.

I don't wish to start a fight on here, but given the contested status of Jerusalem, listing it as a capital like any other, without so much as an asterisk, is a political statement, especially given that the majority of world nations continue to recognize Tel Aviv instead. In addition to a footnote, other options include adding Tel Aviv to the answer, a la Benin, or adding Palestine to the quiz, a la Taiwan.